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http://www.onthemedia.org/story/227276-making-sense-london-2012s-brand-protection-rules/#comment373436Very sad . I thought the 5 rings were a symbol of the 5 continents that humans inhabit and the idea of comming together every 4 years to compete in a Peacefull way to highlight sports achivement and unity.
Just another Corporate Greed and arrogance stance
Just as you cant copyright musical notes.... circles arranged in patterns should not be controlled by $ and Corporate lawyers
What happens if due to the laws of physics and fractals I take a photo of 5 soap bubbles interlinked in a similar manner. I will sell it as ART !
To quote Picasso " minor artists borrow great artists steal "
Sun, 05 Aug 2012 10:35:30 -0400http://www.onthemedia.org/story/227276-making-sense-london-2012s-brand-protection-rules/#comment373436NoneComment #373429 on Making Sense of London 2012's Brand Protection Rules
http://www.onthemedia.org/story/227276-making-sense-london-2012s-brand-protection-rules/#comment373429 I am a Jew interested in New Testament studies. I had probably fallen by some powerful default into a style of thinking characterized as "Good Jesus, Bad Paul," that is, not a word the Holy Man said wasn’t inspirational, whereas the other made a problematic religion out of it. Recently however, I have been reading the letters of Paul, and though I am surely not finding someone I could characterize with the same reverence I do Jesus, I cannot help feel real affection for him.
As well, not long ago I was studying the famous Christmas Time truce in World War I in which I found myself considering the space in between the trenches occupied by Germans and Brits playing little games of soccer, singing carols together in circles around campfires they’d made, engaged in helping each other bury the dead, and having a lively checker game or two. Seems as if this and that bit of contact led to more and more liking as well. {The unofficial truce comes to an end when the generals back in Berlin and London hear of it and demand many dead by the end of the week or else.}
We’re manipulated in this Olympic coverage. It is not a devious plot by NBC. They fall into the default that has long existed in the way we report these and other events. The media focuses on someone—much easier to cover Martin Luther King, Jr. then the tens of thousands of the nonviolent civil rights movement, remember—and we find ourselves rooting, and rooting from the belly—come on, come on, come on, Yes—for the one we become familiar with. The others remain others... though they aren’t, are they? Need I say, each is a Whitman-worthy Cosmos, a Tayloreque churn of burning funk, a child of parents who themselves were children of parents, etc.
I have found myself wanting to feel glad for the Australian with the winning reach at the end, positively curious to know the Chinese fellow who won the mile swim, not terribly unhappy to think it possible that a team other than the dream one may win in hoops. But I also confess the fuel power in those aren’t as powerful as the media-enhanced fuel that my belly speaks while watching the American gymnast grin so wide while stretching those arms up and back in a fast, triumphant move that would leave my body grimacing for weeks.
Still, I know that for the world to be a better place, we need to get to know as many of our fellows as possible, for then we will know it deserves to be a better place. I am forgiving in the sense of knowing how long we’ve had this style of tilting our emotions in the wind the media produces, but... I want to encourage myself towards something a bit healthier, wouldn’t you?
bob minder
Sun, 05 Aug 2012 08:07:16 -0400http://www.onthemedia.org/story/227276-making-sense-london-2012s-brand-protection-rules/#comment373429None